Hi - I have posted on a couple of other thread so apologies if you have read my story before. getting very despondent and wondering what will make things get better....
I decided to potty train ds in August - just after he turned 3. Within 3 weeks we were all sorted. Totally. wees were done within 2, poos took a bit longer but nothing like when i trained dd and we had poos in pants for 3 further months.
Hurrah.
BUT at the start of Sept when he started pre school (only 2 mornings a week) it unravelled. Not the poos but the wees. Sometimes we have totally dry days but I am back to nagging. We had a dry fortnight recently which was amazing. But we oftne have accidents. some little trickles in the pants which i get are just him being desperate, dribbling, then stopping. BUT other wees are full on gushes - some he is dismayed as they happen - others he sits in (watching tv) for a while and a bit later on calmly announces he has done a wee.
This morning we had a wee that missed the potty (will come to the potty issue in a moment) and it was on the floor in front of it (I had just praised him for telling me he needed to have a wee - i think if he had gone straight to do it rather than telling me we might have not had the mess). Then just now in church he sat on my lap all sleepy and weeed on me. I need to go and change as I am soggy but wanted to see if there were any other folk with the same struggles as me.
He will and can wee on the toilet - will do out and about and upstairs but some some reason he is very reluctant to put away the downstairs potty -despite there being a loo down there too. I know I should just take it away but i was originally thinking i would wait until he was back on an even keel and not having accidents - perhaps i should bite the bullet and just do iit as things are not getting any better. We are about to go away for 4 nights tomorrow - (the bonus of a 2 week half term) and I think i will not take the potty and put it away before we go so that it is gone when we get back. Si that wicked??
Thanks if you have read this far.